From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 20 19:15:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7D616A417 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CA8F13C428 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:15:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 20921 invoked by uid 399); 20 Jul 2007 19:15:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTP; 20 Jul 2007 19:15:35 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <46A109D4.4080301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:15:32 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: <20070718154452.B3091@math.missouri.edu> <1184799050.33981.66.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <469EC915.7010006@math.missouri.edu> <469EE627.4000100@u.washington.edu> <1184866302.33981.89.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <469FB6D3.80607@FreeBSD.org> <46A01B10.6080207@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46A01B10.6080207@u.washington.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Robert Noland , Stephen Montgomery-Smith Subject: Re: Problems with +CONTENTS being messed up by pkg_delete -f X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:15:36 -0000 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Personally I think that: > 1. Versions shouldn't matter when calculating absolute dependencies > (i.e. net/samba may depend on popt). Can you give some kind of context for this comment? > 2. If versions do change for a dependent package, the packages > dependent on the changed package should also be rebuilt. Noooooooo, that should definitely not be the default, as it's hardly ever necessary to actually do that, and when it is we have more than enough ports management tools nowadays to handle it. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection